Asbel kiprop

Botswana’s Nijel Amos will be looking to redeem his image at the Birmingham Diamond League meeting after flopping at the just concluded World Athletics Championships in London.

Commonwealth Games winner and who is the third fastest man finished a distant fifth place in a time of 1:45.83 against his PB of 1:41.73 with the Kenyan youngster Kipyegon Bett who he has beaten twice at Diamond League taking a surprise bronze medal in 1:45.21.

The 23 year-old will once again face Kenyan three time world champion Asbel Kiprop whom he beat at the London Meeting when he set the his PB with Kiprop finishing third in 1:44.43.

Asbel comes to this race with a personal best (PB) of 1:43.15 in 800m and has not been lined up in his traditional 1500m race for the two lap race.

The 2017 World Championships silver medalist Adam Kszczot from Poland is also lined up in the provisionary list after producing the best kick that almost gave him the gold but was denied by the French International Pierre-Ambroise Bosse with both crossing the line in 1:44.95 and 1:44.67 respectively.

Kyle Langford from Britain ran a lifetime best at the London Championships when he took 1:45.25 for the fourth position has also been included in the list hoping to fight for a podium finish and collect enough points.

American indoor record holder Erik Sowinski who finished fourth placed at the London Meeting with 1:44.82 and Bram Som the Dutch National record holder who has a PB of 1:43.45 he achieved in 2006 in Zurich. of comand the 2016 European bronze medalist champion Eliot Giles taking fifth with 1:44.99.

The 2015 Pan American Games winner Clayton Murphy and Canadian Brandon Mcbride both of 1:43.60 and 1:44.77 respectively will also be looking for honors.

Guy Learmonth the 7th fastest Scottish 800m athlete of all time wraps up the provisional list that was released on Wednesday by the race organizers coming in with his personal best of 1:45.77

Kenya’s new world 1,500m champion Elijah Manangoi can break the 19-year-old world record for the event, Asbel Kiprop said after losing his title to his younger compatriot on Sunday.

“I see Elijah as a fresh talent, a new guy, who will take the event to the next level,” Kiprop told reporters after failing in his attempt to win a fourth consecutive 1,500 gold medal at the World Championships. “He is new, young, strong and smart; he is the guy to run under 3:26.”

Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj set the world record of 3:26.00 in Rome on July 14 1998.

Kiprop, 28, finished ninth on Sunday, more than three seconds behind Manangoi’s time of three minutes 33.61 seconds, and said he would now move up to the 5,000 metres.

“I used a wrong tactic and used a lot of energy in closing the gap. When the race settled, the pace had become too hot for me.

“I will move to the 5,000m to fill the void being left by Mo Farah and to try and bring the title back home,” he said.

The last Kenyan to win the world 5,000 title was Benjamin Limo in 2005 in Helsinki.

Manangoi, who finished ahead of fellow Kenyan Timothy Cheruiyot, thanked Kiprop for mentoring him but was coy about his world-record ambitions.

“I thank everybody who made this possible,” Manangoi, 24, said. “It is like a dream. I particularly thank Asbel for mentoring me. As for the world record, let’s not talk about it.”

Kenya’s Elijah Manangoi produced an astonishing kick to win the 1500m gold medal at the World Championships in London.

Manangoi, the fastest man in the world this year, sped past his young compatriot on the home straight of the last men’s individual track event to take the title in 3:33.61 and was followed by his training mate Timothy Cheruiyot with 3:33.99 with third place going to Norwagian Filip Ingebrigtsen of 3:34.53.

Three time World Champion Asbel Kiprop, who had briefly threatened to make it a Kenyan clean sweep, found the pace too hot on the last lap, fading into ninth place in 3:37.24, a fairly tame attempt to emulate the four straight metric mile world golds of Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj.

Three time World 1500m champion Asbel Kiprop and World silver medalist Elijah Manangoi will today be out to redeem the Kenyan image after the country lost obvious gold at the ongoing London Championships.

While Kiprop will be targeting a fourth successive title, the man to watch is Managoi who is currently in the best shape this season running twice world best at the Doha and Monaco Diamond League crossing the line with 3:31.90 and 3:28.80 respectively

The Rongai Athletics Club member hopes to upgrade his silver medal from the 2015 championships in Beijing to gold this time round.

The defending champion Kiprop has had an up and down season will likely try and prove the world wrong as he has perfomed below the expectation both in Kenya and at the Diamond meetings, but it that is behind him now as he seems to have regained his form as he looked comfortable in his first round and semi-final races.

The 28-year-old will also be seeking to equal the record of four successive titles set by Morocco’s world record holder Hicham El Guerrouj.

Timothy Cheruiyot who finished seventh placed at the 2015 world championships in Beijing has also been in great shape winning the Rabat Meeting and also setting his personal best at Monaco with 3:29.10.

Three time world champion Asbel Kiprop led a powerful trio of Kenyans into Sunday’s 1500m final at the World Athletics Championships, giving himself the chance of shooting for a fourth successive gold medal in the metric mile event.

The 28-year-old is seeking to equal the record of four successive titles set by Morocco’s world record holder Hicham El Guerrouj, kept out of trouble on the wide outside before sprinting home a comfortable second in his heat on Friday.

Elijah Manangoi, the fastest man in the world this year, who ran a controlled race to win the opening semi-final in 3:40.10 with Kiprop coming second in 3:40.14 while third place went to Norwagian Filip Ingebrigtsen of 3:40,23.

In the second semi-final Jakub Holusa of Czech Republic crossed the line with 3:38.05 with Kenya’s Timothy Cheruiyot, the second quickest man of 2017, coming second with 3:38.24 making sure that he gets the automatic qualification to the final.

The big casualty was the fourth Kenyan, Ronald Kwemoi, third fastest on 2017 form, who had not looked comfortable in the opening round where he moved to semi’s with the quickest loser but this time trailed home ninth placed with 3:39.47.

Olympic champion Matthew Centrowitz (Broadneck) finished last in his 1,500-meter heat at the 16th IAAF World Athletics Championships on Thursday in London.

Centrowitz has struggled with illness and a groin injury for the past year after winning the gold medal in Rio de Janeiro last summer.

With the top six of 14 runners going automatically through to the semifinals, Centrowitz trailed going into the finishing straight and never got any momentum going. His time of 3 minutes, 48.34 seconds was the fifth slowest of the 41 runners in the three heats.

“Obviously I didn’t execute my plan today,” Centrowitz said to NBC after the race, according to flotrack.org. “No one every has a perfect lead-up to any championship.

This year was a little tougher than others. It’s been a tough year to get through and [this is] a culmination of all those things that have been tough all year . . . tough is the only word that comes to mind. Obviously, there were a lot of expectation this year and I wanted to exceed those, but it’s tough to exceed the year I had.”

Australian Luke Mathews had the fastest qualifying time (3:38.19), followed by Kenyan Timothy Cheruiyot (3:38.41). Three-time defending world champion Asbel Kiprop, aiming to match the four successive titles world-record Hicham El Guerrouj earned from 1997 to 2003, got through in 3:45.96.

World silver medalist Elijah Matonei Manangoi will lead the kenyan contigent at the 1500m at the World Athletics Championships in London.

Manangoi who has been in the best shape this season running twice world best at the Doha and Monaco Diamond League crossing the line with 3:31.90 and 3:28.80 respectively.

The Rongai based runner whose training partner Timothy Cheruiyot finished seventh placed at the 2015 world championships in Beijing has also been in great shape winning the Rabat Meeting and also setting his personal best at Monaco with 3:29.10.

The defending champion Asbel Kiprop has had an up and down season will likely try and prove the world wrong as he has perfomed below the expectation both in Kenya and at the Diamond. The three time world champion comes to the field with a season best of 3:33.17 .

The 2014 World Junior record holder Ronald Kwemoi will be making his first appearance at the World Championships stage but he comes with a personal best of 3:28.81 he set in 2014 in Herculis,Monaco. The 21 year-old won the 1500m at the Athletics Kenya trials at Nyayo Stadium crossing the line in 3:30.89.

Matthew Centrowitz ran a masterfully controlled race to claim the Olympic title last summer and the 27-year-old has never finished lower than eighth in the seven major 1500m finals he has contested indoors and outdoors.

Centrowitz’s season hasn’t gone entirely to plan – and he was even on the cusp of withdrawing from the US Championships after sustaining a mid-season adductor injury – but he is returning to form again after finishing second to Robby Andrews in their domestic championships.

The likes of Bahrain’s Sadik Mikhou (3:31.34) and Ethiopia’s Aman Wote (3:31.63) both feature prominently on the world list but neither of them have much in the way of championship form. By contrast, Nick Willis from New Zealand and Abdalaati Iguider from Morocco are midpack on the season’s lists with 3:34.74 and 3:34.99 respectively but they are perhaps the two most experienced athletes on the entry list and are both dependable big-time performers.

European champion Filip Ingebrigtsen from Norway could be a threat in a slow race while 800m specialist Marcin Lewandowski will contest the 1500m for the first time in a global championships. Lewandowski claimed the European indoor title at this distance in Belgrade in March and set a Polish record of 3:34.04 in Monaco last month.

Other long shots include Brits Chris O’Hare and Jake Wightman, who have both taken wins on the IAAF Diamond League circuit this summer, while Spain’s Adel Mechaal has been in good form this season over 1500m and 3000m.

Asbel Kiprop has won four major titles at 1500m but his victory in Beijing two years ago was arguably the most impressive of the lot as he had to extricate himself from a seemingly impossible position on the last lap and overtake nine runners in the last 300 metres to ensure his third world title.

A fourth world title in London would match the haul achieved by world record-holder Hicham El Guerrouj from Morocco between 1997 and 2003. But while El Guerrouj could often rely on a teammate to ensure a fast pace to his liking, Kiprop has three younger teammates – not to mention some very capable challengers from the rest of the world – all looking to knock the reigning champion off his pedestal.

Kiprop has been in indifferent form in the lead-up to the championships. Most recently, he was a well-beaten 11th at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Monaco in 3:34.91, but experience and a cool head – which Kiprop demonstrated after getting boxed on the last lap in Beijing – are what is important in a championship setting.

A month ago, Ronald Kwemoi would have probably been the consensus pick to claim this title. He won the 1500m at the Kenyan Trials at altitude in 3:30.89 but this was followed by a defeat over 3000m at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Paris before finishing third in Monaco where he appeared to limp away from the track.

Elijah Manangoi and Timothy Cheruiyot finished first and second respectively in that race in the two fastest times of the year. They were also second and seventh respectively in Beijing and are both expected to feature in the race for the medals again. Manangoi was one of the favourites for the Olympic title last year but a calf injury forced him to withdraw from the semifinal while Cheruiyot has improved substantially since making the final two years ago when he was still a teenager.

Matthew Centrowitz ran a masterfully controlled race to claim the Olympic title last summer and the 27-year-old has never finished lower than eighth in the seven major 1500m finals he has contested indoors and outdoors. Centrowitz’s season hasn’t gone entirely to plan – and he was even on the cusp of withdrawing from the US Championships after sustaining a mid-season adductor injury – but he is returning to form again after finishing second to Robby Andrews in their domestic championships.

The likes of Bahrain’s Sadik Mikhou (3:31.34) and Ethiopia’s Aman Wote (3:31.63) both feature prominently on the world list but neither of them have much in the way of championship form. By contrast, Nick Willis from New Zealand and Abdalaati Iguider from Morocco are midpack on the season’s lists with 3:34.74 and 3:34.99 respectively but they are perhaps the two most experienced athletes on the entry list and are both dependable big-time performers.

European champion Filip Ingebrigtsen from Norway could be a threat in a slow race while 800m specialist Marcin Lewandowski will contest the 1500m for the first time in a global championships. Lewandowski claimed the European indoor title at this distance in Belgrade in March and set a Polish record of 3:34.04 in Monaco last month.

Other long shots include Brits Chris O’Hare and Jake Wightman, who have both taken wins on the IAAF Diamond League circuit this summer, while Spain’s Adel Mechaal has been in good form this season over 1500m and 3000m.

Three time World 1500m champion Asbel Kiprop will be out to redeem his image after his ups and downs this season when he runs at the Monaco Diamond League will be held on Friday (21) in Monaco.

Kiprop will face two more Kenyans who have two World leading times, Timothy Cheruiyot who comes to the race with an insane world lead of 3:30.77 and Ronald Kwemoi of 3:30.89.

Reigning Olympic champion Matt Centrowitz typically doesn’t fare as well in fast races, if he’s on the tail end of that train seeing the American record (3:29.30 by Bernard Lagat) fall is a distinct possibility.

Nick Willis of New Zealand will be coming into this race with a different goal in mind. Though he’s broken 3:30 twice in Monaco and is the reigning Olympic bronze medalist, he currently holds a season best of just 3:36.95, slowest in the field, and Monaco will be just his 3rd race back from injury.

World silver medalist Elijah Manangoi fellow training mate of Cheruiyot will backing on his time he set in Doha Meeting when he finished with a world lead of 3:31.90.

Norway’s 2016 European Champion Filip Ingebrigtsen who has a personal best of 3:34.38 is also lined up for the race with Great Britain’s Chris Ohare and Poland’s Marcin Lewandoski gracing the meeting with 3:34.35 and 3:34.50 respectively.